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The simplistic label of ‘Asian’ is hiding just how different the experiences are of secondary school students from different Asian backgrounds, especially when it comes to mental distress, new research from the Youth19 survey shows.The…

A tiny region of the brain responsible for our emotional responses increases in size during the first few weeks after giving birth, a new study has found.An international research team, including Associate Professor Eileen Lueders and Dr…

Associate Professor Susanna Trnka, a social anthropologist in the Faculty of Arts, will take up the position from 1 March 2022 until 31 December 2026, and is thrilled with the honour of leading the first editorial team based in the…

Two recently published studies using information from this country’s largest longitudinal study of child development, Growing Up in New Zealand, looked at the prevalence of pre-schoolers’ screen time; identified predictors of higher…

The University celebrates 7,136 graduates this year ranging in age from 19 to 78. The total number of qualifications being conferred is 7,292, with 116 people gaining more than one qualification. More women than men will graduate…

As many as 29 percent of students experienced at least one form of housing deprivation in the previous 12 months, according to the Youth19 Housing Deprivation Brief from the University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington.The…

New Zealand's first research examining the brain tissue of people with sports-related brain degeneration is being funded by the Health Research Council.The research will be carried out by a scientist in the Centre for Brain Research who…

Hundreds of people have participated in the Velocity Innovation Challenge as entrants, advocates, mentors and volunteers with the united purpose of bringing new ideas into the world.Innovation Challenge is a key event for the University…

An experiment tested how people in their 70s and 80s felt about robots helping with daily routines.Experiment showed human-robot connection“Well, I quite liked it!” said one person in a University of Auckland study. “I thought of it as a…

Genes are encoded in DNA, and closely related species will often have the same genes in the same order in the genome. However, over millions of years of evolution, this shared gene order gets lost as the DNA gets broken, repaired and…